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Health service gatekeepers
Malcomson, James - 2003
Incentive contracts for gatekeepers who control patient access to specialist medical services provide too weak incentives to investigate cost further when expected cost of treatment is greater than benefit. Making gatekeepers residual claimants with a fixed fee from which treat-ment costs must...
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Health Service Gatekeepers
Malcomson, James M. - 2004
Incentive contracts for gatekeepers who control patient access to specialist medical services provide too weak incentives to investigate cost further when expected cost of treatment is greater than benefit. Making gatekeepers residual claimants with a fixed fee from which treatment costs must be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012786021
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Monopolistic competition and costs in the health care sector
Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2009
strong position on the market for health care services. Physicians exert a type of monopolistic power which can be described … counterbalance the strong bargaining position of the physicians. Thus, health care expenditure is higher, financing either extra … profits for physicians or a higher number of them. In addition, health insurers do not have an incentive to contract …
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Health service gatekeepers
Malcomson, James M. - In: The Rand journal of economics 35 (2004) 2, pp. 401-421
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Health service gatekeepers
Malcomson, James M. (contributor) - 2003
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Double moral hazard and outcome-based remuneration of physicians
Schneider, Udo - 2007
The discussion about health care systems focuses on the dynamics of expenditures and on the weak growth of the revenue base. In this discussion it is widely overseen that medical expenditures and supply of medical services crucially depend on the compensation of physician services. The paper...
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P4P, reputation and the reduction of costly overprovision
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2012
assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as …
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Gatekeeping in Health Care
Brekke, Kurt Richard; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021
We study the competitive effects of restricting direct access to secondary care by gatekeeping, focusing on the informational role of general practitioners (GPs). In the secondary care market there are two hospitals choosing quality and specialisation. Patients, who are ex ante uninformed, can...
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Healer or gatekeeper? : physicians' role conflict when symptoms are non-verifiable
Carlsen, Benedicte; Nyborg, Karine - 2017
Although physicians are often expected to be gatekeepers to health insurance benefits such as paid sick leave, research … most physicians prefer to be good gatekeepers, all of them may trust their patients in Nash equilibrium. These ideas are … illustrated using results from focus group interviews with Norwegian primary care physicians. …
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Organizing and Regulating Hospital and Physician Investment
Mikkers, Misja C. - 2011
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